Machinery makers will feature their extruders for film, sheet, profiles, pipe and tubing at NPE2009, as well as the pumps, controls, upstream and downstream equipment.
Addex Inc. (Booth N77063): Blown film equipment featuring raw material savings. An internal gauge control for air flow in the bubble via 3-millimeter-wide control zones reduces film thickness variation by at least 50 percent for resin savings. The external gauge control is an air ring system with as many as four times the number of control zones. A manual gauge-control air ring reduces thickness variation by as much as 30 percent. Digital internal bubble cooling reduces scrap generation. The firm's brand-new Gravex continuous gravimetric blending system assures accuracy of average film thickness.
Advanced Extruder Technologies Inc. (Booth N85046): A custom extruder and system for sheet extrusion, a reclaim system and a new screw design.
Allied Dies Inc. (Booth N71042): Flat film, sheet and coating dies. Coextrusion feed blocks.
Alpha Marathon Film Extrusion Technologies Inc. (Booth S1012): Turnkey systems and components for blown and cast film, bubble forming and converting. Products include a water-quench downward blown film technology. A stacked turret winder, stacked dual-lip air ring and heated die lip. Also, a laminar flow dual-lip air ring and a control system.
American Kuhne Inc. (Booth N65033): Single-screw extruders up to 12 inches in diameter. A new gearless, direct-drive extruder designed to run at conventional single-screw speeds. The machine's high-torque, low-speed motor eliminates the need for gearbox and attendant radial bearings and drive-belt adjustments. It can run cleaner and as much as 15 percent more efficiently. Also, modular production extruders for quick change of barrels and screws and increased flexibility, Steward-made barrier screws for retrofits and a low-cost AKtive touch-screen system.
American Leistritz Extruder Corp. (Booth N77046): Complete systems for compounding, devolatilizing, reactive and direct extrusion. A demonstration Nano-16 twin-screw extruder will be processing microbatches at the show. It features a torque sensor load cell integrated into the drive train and replicates larger-scale equipment with a free volume of only 0.9 cubic centimeter per diameter. On display for the first time in North America, the ZSE-40 Maxx co-rotating twin-screw with a new higher torque gearbox that gives a 30 percent increase for many engineering compounds. A personal computer-based control system for laboratory equipment with advanced data acquisition and recipe management.
American Maplan Corp. (Booth S18008): SS-90 single-screw extruder for polyolefin pipe has high capacity, is robust, easy to operate and economical. TS-100/2 counter-rotating twin-screw for PVC pipe and profile combines high throughput and performance with low cost. RK1.25 dual PVC pipe die head for production of PVC and chlorinated PVC pipe up to 1 inch in diameter. It allows knit lines of the spider to fuse prior to exiting the die, giving improved properties. The PO 125 VSI polyolefin pipe head maintains tight wall-thickness tolerance and provides high throughput and quality in broad processing conditions. The HFR 2-10 PVC pipe head is a new design for high throughput and quick die change. The RM2-10 PVC pipe head is a new configuration with special spider design for enhanced properties and processing.
Boston Matthews Inc. (Booth N69042): Complete extrusion lines, extruders, downstream equipment and Muncher single-unit, universal recycling systems. New in multilayer extrusion are cosmetic tubing, cross-linked polyethylene pipe and automotive tubing.
C. W. Brabender Instruments Inc. (Booth S54002): Instrumentation for rheology and processing development. Laboratory-scale compounding, extrusion, mixing applications. New TLS Plasti-Corder torque rheometer. New 12-millimeter clamshell segmented twin-screw extruder. New Visco-Corder VC-E.
Brampton Engineering Inc. (Booth N67027): Blown film lines, including AquaFrost 7- to 11-layer water-quench systems.
Breyer GmbH Maschinenfabrik (Booth S8052): Extrusion lines for sheet and multiwall sheet, film and tubes. A new line for producing ethylene vinyl acetate for solar film encapsulation makes EVA film with low shrinkage at high production rates. Sticky materials like EVA can be processed more easily than by calendering or cast film.
Bruckner Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG (Booth S21045): Twin-screw technology with no resin pre-drying necessary, plus other energy-saving features. Also, stretching technology for multilayer and high-barrier films, including biaxially oriented PET and polypropylene. Stretching lines for polylactic acid and other biodegradable films.
Buss Inc. USA (Booth N83039): Reciprocating single-screw extruder for mixing, compounding and pelletizing. An MX105 new-generation compounding system will be exhibited at NPE for the first time.
Canadian Feed Screws Manufacturing Ltd. (Booth N67053): Plasticating screws, barrels and related components.
CDI-Custom Downstream Systems Inc. (Booth S32078): Downstream extrusion products and turnkey systems. New medical line of downstream equipment, including vacuum tank, puller/ cutter and take-away conveyor. Meets clean room standards and the machinery is retractable and easy to clean.
Cincinnati Extrusion Inc. (Booth S18008): New KryoSys pipe production system with a special modified spiral mandrel distribution head — the KryoS — that reduces polymer melt temperature by 25 percent and cuts down on sag at the die exit. The cooling of the polymer melt and internal pipe cooling reduce internal stress on the pipe wall. The system is available for pipe up to 78 inches thick. Also, an Argos 72 parallel, counter-rotating twin-screw extruder that is robust and easy to operate. A Konos 50 conical twin-screw extruder combines high throughput and performance with low cost, an Alpha 45 single-screw unit for thermoplastic profiles and small-diameter tubing, and dies for the production of window profiles.
Cloeren Inc. (Booth N71034): Feed blocks, extrusion and web-coating dies.
CMD Corp. (Booth S12028): Demonstrating 1270GDS global draw-tape bag-making system that offers high production speeds and flexible takeoff options. It offers a small footprint, easy operation and can be configured with a global high-speed winder to make bags on a roll.
Compuestos Dominicanos SA (Booth S1021): Extrusion of PVC, thermoplastic polyolefins and thermoplastic rubber.
Conair Group Inc. (Booth S42031): New TrueWeigh extrusion control system is a gravimetric system to maintain consistent dimensions and weight despite changes in raw materials or other variables. New TrueBlend EXT gravimetric extrusion control blender combines two systems to reduce overall system cost and give the operator single-point access to control extruded product. New ScrapSaver in-line extrusion scrap reclaim system delivers up to 25 percent film scrap regrind to the extruder with no hang-ups, surging or clumpiing.
Contact Rubber Inc. (Booth S56058): Replacement flat and profiled cleats and pads for all puller brands. Complete chain and cleat assemblies, puller belts, roller chain, rolls and rollers. New cast-cover puller belts. New rubber compound for belt pullers.
Cooper Machine & Tool Co. (Booth S14023): New turret winder for coreless rolls of perforated tear-off bags is fully automatic, has a small footprint and is stand-alone. Tapeless cantilever turret winder for cored rolls makes it easy to slide on empty cores and slide off finished rolls. High-speed bag separator/folder enables folding at 50 percent more output. Rotary cutter cuts bag patterns individually while continuously running on line.
Coperion Corp. (Booth N77027): Complete expanded systems for compounding. Components and services for the plastics industry.
Davinor Ltd. (Booth W127035): LayerGauge measures the thickness of each layer in a ABCBA film structure. It uses white light, not laser or radiation and can be used near the film production line. Even thin ethylene vinyl alcohol layers are detected reliably.
Davis-Standard LLC (Booth N71006): New ultrawide PAC-60 winder for stretch film up to 140 inches wide. Can take a single- or dual-winder configuration. A cost-effective DS-e-TPC control, mounted on a 2.5-inch Super Blue extruder, used primarily to make profiles, features improvements like coordinated line control and support for more customers across all product lines. The DS-e can control up to eight barrel zones per extruder. Also on display, an XP Express roll-stand system for making sheet with hundreds of layers, including foam capabilities, that is suited to thermoforming applications, too. Small-footprint HPE adjustable and horizontal extruders. Mesa and Epic control systems. An Integrator Pro control for high-level converting combines total line control and data monitoring. A new extrusion coating line with a range of options to customize applications. New pelletizing technology, including an air-ring pelletizer, a retrofit system to increase capacity, a new die plate design and a conversion kit to double knife life.
Dieffenbacher North America (Booth W133043): Advanced plastic forming systems, including new DSMC direct-strand molding compound manufacturing systems for thermoset materials.
Dynisco (Booth N69063): New extrusion control technology such as the Opt-Trol, which integrates control of most extrusion lines offering adaptive, auto-tuned temperature, pressure and speed control. The cost-effective system is expandable. The firm's SPX-L pressure sensor improves linearity by 80 percent and reduces combined error by 25 percent, while the SPX-T has a built-in temperature sensor to compensate for changes in ambient temperature. The UPR800 temperature/pressure panel indicators have optional secondary input for displaying pressure and temperature simultaneously. The cost-effective ATC880 self-tuning controller, which manages critical parameters such as polymer melt pressure and temperature, offers broad design options. The SPXD is an intrinsically safe, loop-powered digital display that handles 4-20 milliamp signals.
Entek Manufacturing Inc. (Booth N71063): Co-rotating twin-screw extruders and replacement wear parts. The E-Max 27-millimeter twin-screw for low-volume production and laboratory use.
Extrusion Dies Industries LLC (Booth N85007): New microlayer technology improves key properties in cast film and sheet. The flat-die system transforms a typical sandwich structure from a standard coextrusion feed block into a structure in which one or more of the layers is subdivided into multiple microlayers. Impact strength and barrier are a few properties gained.
Farrel Corp. (Booth N67006): Batch and continuous mixing equipment, extruders, polymer melt pumps, pelletizers, mills and calenders, and twin-screw sheet lines.
Future Design Inc. (Booth S3010): Air rings, dies, evacuation systems, elevators, bubble guides, oscillating haul-offs, top nips and collapsing frames, winders and laboratory lines.
Gloucester Engineering Co. (Booth S32000): Extrusion systems, new winder technology and stacked air rings.
Gneuss Inc. (Booth N65039): First North American showing of MRS multirotation system for devolatilization of plastic melts. A patented multiple-screw section permits high degassing performance. Can extrude undried PET. Small extruder barrels hold satellite screws driven by ring gear in the main barrel and the system gives 500 percent more surface-area exchange compared with a conventional single-screw extruder. Also showing the RSFGenius filtration system, which is self-cleaning and process-constant, and new insulation for screen changers that cuts energy use to heat the unit by 40 percent. A new NTX mercury-free series of melt pressure transducers and transmitters has long life, repeatability and accuracy.
Greiner Extrusion US Inc. (Booth S39088): Extusion tooling, downstream equipment.
Guangdong Liansu Machinery Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Booth S9013): Extrusion machinery.
Guill Tool and Engineering (Booth N85030): Extrusion tooling. New Micro concentricity adjustment system.
Hosokawa Alpine American (Booth N83015): Blown film machinery and extrusion equipment.
HPM (Booth N77000): Plastic extruders and sheet line systems. A new, multiple all-nipping roll stand for in-line extrusion for thermoforming, which is designed for five or seven rolls, gives total control in the cooling process because it doesn't allow the sheet to be unstable due to machine stresses or gravity. New custom roll stands for thick and thin sheet. Six chill rolls accommodate sheet from 0.02-inch to 1.5-inches in thickness. To accommodate a wide speed range, special transmissions are used with the roll-stand gear reducers.
Industrial Extrusion Belting (Booth W101051): Puller belts, cleats and pulleys.
Kiefel Technologies Inc. (Booth S18039): Blown film equipment, including a die head that handles low volumes of sensitive materials gently under conditions of low volume and pressure. Perfect Cool Vario for large throughput combined with high bubble stability and film strength.
Labtech Engineering Co. Ltd. (Booth S42073): Extrusion and calendering equipment, screen changers and pelletizers. Showing a small-scale three-layer blown film line with three 20-millimeter single-screw extruders and a three-layer pancake type of film die. Features motorized height adjustment and is expandable up to seven layers.
Maag Pump Systems Inc. (Booth N77069): Extrusion pumps, flat extrusion dies, screen changers, static mixers. Systems, plus controls and adapters. Dies for film, sheet, double wall and foam. Feed blocks.
Macro Engineering & Technology Inc. (Booth N71020): Lines for blown and film, sheet, extrusion coating and lamination. Web-handling equipment, winders. A new Automax-SBG reversible surface winder allows processors to chose whether to wind rolls with the film's treated side in or out, and features straight-edge cut-overs that are done without fold-over to produce flat, wrinkle-free film right to the core.
Mahlo America Inc. (Booth N60049): On-line process measurement and control, web process controls, quality control systems, web gauging systems, basis weight measurement, and thickness and moisture measurement. A Mahlo QMS-12 web gauging system, and a DFI dynamic flutter independent beta sensor.
MPP Inc. (Booth W132053): Roll service engineering and industrial chromium plating.
Next Generation Recyclingmaschinen GmbH (Booth N75045): Complete machines to recycle scrap into pellets. X-Gran shredder/feeder extruder combination, which can handle industrial scrap up to 4,400 pounds per hour. X:FE feeder/extruder for recycling ground or post-consumer waste at up to 5,000 pounds per hour.
NFM Welding Engineers (Booth N77015): Polymer extrusion systems including turnkey operations.
OMV USA Inc. (Booth N83000): Extruders for thermoforming, complete systems.
Parkinson Technologies Inc. (Booth N75027): Sheet orientation systems, winders and slitter/rewinders, and melt filtration systems. A new Dusenbery slitter/rewinder for small to medium scale. Positran surface winding technology. Superflex stretching technology.
C.A. Picard Inc. (Booth N67052): Precision wear-resistant replacement screws, barrels and shafts.
Plast-Control Inc. (Booth S56036): Automatic controls for extrusion, gravimetric blending, vacuum control, air rings, internal bubble controls, plantwide data collection. A double air ring for blown film, batch blending.
Plastic Equipment Co. Ltd. (Booth W125047): Film extrusion line, a slitter/rewinder, pouch bag-making machine and corona treater.
Proco Machinery Inc. (Booth S17064): Multipak pelletizer, a Proco flame treater and spout insertion machine.
ProfilePipe Machinery Inc. (Booth N85039): Pipe corrugators, pipe extrusion downstream equipment, pipe and tubing coilers and new automatic pipe coilers for solid-wall and corrugated pipe.
PSI-Polymer Systems Inc. (Booth N67069): Extrusion gear pump trade-in program that can save 40 percent of the cost of a replacement PSI gear pump.
PTi/Processing Technologies LLC (Booths W115032, N77056): Sheet extrusion lines, including the new Globaline sheet extrusion system. Also, the first NPE showing for Titan and Titan Plus control systems.
R&B Plastics Machinery (Booth S20063): Single-screw extruders, including the new Max single-screw extruder.
Rayteck Corp. (Booth S55017): Non-contact infrared measurement of thin films and extrusion, including the Raytek CM infrared non-contact point sensor.
Reduction Engineering Scheer (Booth N81045): Waterslide pelletizers. The SGS 300 E strand pelletizer and EUP200 underwater pelletizer.
Rival A/S (Booth S4059): Adjustable sizing sleeves, including a new sizing sleeve with 10 percent adjustment area.
Rodolfo Comerio SNC (Booth W128043): Calendering lines, laminating and embossing lines, and winders. Re-reeling/inspecting machines, rotogravure printing lines, two-roll millls. Laboratory lines and machines. New rotogravure printing machine.
SteerAmerica LLC (Booth W127047): Twin-screw extruders, elements, barrels and shafts. New Omicron 12 (12-millimeter) laboratory-scale twin-screw extruder with a splined shaft, segmented screws and clam-shell segmented barrels. The new H-Class twin-screw, co-rotating extruder series with ultra-high torque, featuring three side feeders and a downstream vacuum stuffer.
Technical Process & Engineering Inc. (Booth N60034): Twin rotor continuous mixers and extruders for color concentrates and high polymer loadings, of up to 15,000 pounds per hour. Featuring a small footprint.
Thermoforming Systems LLC (Booth S25048): Extruders for thermoforming.
Torninova srl (Booth S23033): Machines for production of air-bubble film, stretch film and polyethylene. Machine for coextruded bubble film has 10 layers for air-retention barrier. Also, a machine for barrier air-bubble film with nylon inside layer.
Trinity North America Inc. (Booth W125041): Profile extrusion tooling for PVC and PVC foam, including flex and cap-stock uses. Downstream equipment including calibration tables and cleated haul-off with integrated traveling saw.
UniTherm Insulation Systems (Booth N65050): Removable/ reusable insulation jacket system for machinery.
Vactec LLC (Booth S35099): Simple drain and purge systems for extruders.
Weco International Inc. (Booth W122029): Heaters, controllers and accessories.
Welex Inc. (N65000): Sheet extrusion systems. A World Standard coextrusion line will run amorphous PET for food packaging and an Evolution sheet takeoff with three chrome cooling rolls will finish the sheet, which will be treated with silicone emulsion to prevent blocking. Also, new high-speed, cost-effective, energy-efficient extruders, including an HS300 model with output of more than 4,000 pounds per hour. New to the Welex lineup, the Econotruder is a cost-effective extruder featuring a direct-drive system for efficiency and modular multizone power units for temperature control.
Westland Corp. (Booth S17040): Tungsten carbide-lined barrels, including 88 percent tungsten carbide hot isostatic pressing type; Reiloy bimetallic barrels; an Eagle mixing screw for color mixing and melt quality.
Wexco Corp. (Booth S54009): Bimetallic extrusion barrels. An enhanced Dura 686XL.
Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corp. (BoothS 32014): A Topas industrial form-fill-seal machine operating and filling 50-pound bags in its first North American trade show appearance. Also, blown and cast film extrusion, flexographic and rotogravure printing presses, multiwall and woven bag-making machines, and a soft-loop handle bag machine.
Wing Fat Trading Co. (Booth N58053): Separating screens and extrusion machinery.
Zambello USA (Booth N58041): Extruder gearboxes.